You mentioned one out of three applications that keeps me working within Windows part of the time. Corel PhotoPaint has been my image editor of choice for a long time. I attempted to use the linux version but it just didn't cut it in the first iteration, and now that project seems to have been abandoned. Too bad.
HomeSite has been my favorite PHP/HTML editor for a few years. I am trying to move to Quanta, whose team has done a really good job. VegasVideo is hands-down my favorite piece of software I get to use.
Each of these applications provide an easy path to tailoring the workspace to one's particular preference. However, now I am pretty sure that I just spoke from the point of being overly familiar with my choice applications and getting all codgy about the glowy-shiny horning in on me rather than making a case for UI differentiation between applications and OS. (Huh? where am I.)
Anyway, my eyes also agree with the choice of plain-Jane window frames with the majority of it given over to content, with only the widgets I choose available. The windowing interface of current and forthcoming MS-OSessess (and others) hijack the display, and the first thing I do when turning on a new install of whatever OS is to try and take it back. I imagine that the average user will have little motivation to (or are discouraged from.. cogent point, yours about the sidebar.. this glimpse of your directory structure brought to you by Jack-In-The-Box) finding something different than out-of-box settings, even though there may be a _better_ way.
The comment regarding the CPU speed illustrating "the fakeness" was clearly a bad attempt on my part to make fun of what the minimum system requirements for the next iteration of Windows must be, and that this rig clearly would not be up to the task. Trite, cliched, and I apologize.
I think you hit the nail on the head when describing the blurring of distinction between web and desktop. It is this unification of IE and the rest of the interface that I find to be most disenchanting as I don't agree with the design paradigm.
By density, I was describing that I don't allow much wasted space within a window and typically find that I work more efficiently being able to see more content of the document at once, as opposed to bordering/white space. I also typically toggle between various applications and find not as easy to quickly identify what window I'm looking at if the interface is too "same-ish". But as I said before, to each.
Most obvious damning evidence to support your case that these shots are faked:
From System Properties Screenshot:
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
998 MHz
512 MB of RAM
Har.
But seriously, though I have not spent much time in WindowsXP personally, one thing that I noticed immediately upon setting it up for clients is that more and more window space is given over to branding (mucho!) and white space, with less "real" information available.
This trend appears to be continuing with the next Windows release, should these screenshots be legitimate. I realize that there are plenty of ways to increase the density of information displayed through window customization, but the default settings are moving more and more to the point of being devoid of actual control and content. "Hey, Joe, you're using Windows! (press okay to return to your desktop, or cancel to return to your desktop)"
For some, I would imagine that when looking at the high-density desktop UI I enjoy, they would see it as all wrong and just a bunch of chart clutter. To each, I suppose. Mmmm, gummy. Anyway, running the interface shown in those screenshots would be close to pure hell on low-resolution displays with the scrolling and the carpal and the scrolling.
An article in the Oregonian (Portland newspaper) recently went into some detail about the Oregon Historical Society and their intentions to digitize their entire physical collection. You may wish to contact them directly to learn of their techniques, successes and failures.
The five record labels -- Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG Music Group, AOL Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Music Group and EMI Group PLC -- and the three retailers, Musicland Stores Corp., Trans World Entertainment Corp. and Tower Records, agreed to stop using MAP policies as part of the settlement.
bull. Brad Maione, Spitzer's spokesman, said the companies would not admit any wrongdoing.
bullshit^2 and abdication/autoabsolution in the same sentence. There is no way this "settlement" can be viewed as anything less than an utter failure. Mariah Carey's contract was purchased for more than one third of this settlement IN CASH, not in the distribution of recordings for our schools and communities, just to get her to stop singing. Give me more bull.
This is a landmark settlement to address years of illegal price-fixing, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said in a statement. This is not a landmark. It ain't even a bookmark. Read the article and boggle at the audacity.
Emmett 2002-09-24 15:51:43 (Xiph.org - Ogg Vorbis) Hey, folks, please read. Ladies and Gentlemen and other assorted interested parties:
This morning (2:28am, EDT), I received an E-mail from Y.H. Lee, the Chief Engineer of iRiver's products. He has informed me that they are currently porting the fixed-point Ogg Vorbis decoder (Tremor) to their product. We will endeavour to assist them in any way we can.
In addition to letting iRiver know that we stand behind them ready to assist with technical issues, I believe a huge thanks is in order to the people who have contacted iRiver asking them to support our format. We're indebted to all of you who have posted looking for Vorbis support on this thread, as well as all of you who have sent iRiver E-mails and called them on the telephone.
With any luck, it won't be long before iRiver starts releasing products with Ogg Vorbis support. When the day comes, I hope you'll all take a moment to congratulate yourselves, and celebrate with a portable full of music encoded in an open and free format.:)
If anyone has any questions, comments, or anything they want to talk about, please feel free to drop me an E-mail to emmett@xiph.org, or give me a call at 215-820-9583. We're an open source project, and we love hearing from people, talking about the codec, and discussing cool stuff. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you want to gripe, complain or compliment.
Thanks again for all your help, folks. We couldn't do it without you.
The patient, a 40-year-old Michigan man with diabetes, seems to have caught the bug off an infected catheter inserted while he was in the hospital for the amputation of a gangrenous toe
Suddenly I realize that I am not having such a bad day after all.
Well, to be fair to her, the cursing was not directed at the patrol but more the situation, as in, "You have to cut jacket? God Damn it! Okay, go ahead. GOD DAMN IT!" . Perhaps I should have said, cursing next to the Ski Patrol.
I spend a lot of time in weather that is less than pleasant, under conditions where good gear makes a big difference. Audio hardware integrated into your clothing to make it easier to listen to music while riding is not necessarily very safe, as evidenced by numerous incidents of which I am aware where riders have hit snow cats and other riders while oblivious to external sounds. That aside, it sure is fun, being so free on the mountain while listening to your favorite tunes.
I witnessed an experience of a friend of mine about 15 or 20 years ago that makes me think twice whenever I want to drop a few hundred dollars on a new coat.
I was skiing with a teammate on our racing team. She took a fall as we were heading toward the lift line and slid through a plastic mesh fence. Her arm got stuck in the fence as she slid underneath, resulting in a compound fracture. When the Ski Patrol came to extract her from the fence and get her to a care facility, they had to cut off her rather new $300 Descente racing jacket.
I remember, in between her yelling about how much her arm hurt, cursing at the Ski Patrol as they sliced through the exotic fabric and ruined the jacket.
Of course, it was only a jacket, but it is kind of funny how some people, myself included, grow quite fond of the gear we use when out in the elements. It is not entirely a money issue either, but more how one grows comfortable with, relies upon, and trusts the hardware we use.
I think that it will be really interesting when biometric monitors, GPS gear, and transponders are integrated into clothing to help first responders locate and field diagnose victims in the wilderness or on the trail.
Analyst Laura DiDio of the Yankee Group said companies are taking a risk by using such old software, but Microsoft should correct the problem because of its severity.
I am having a hard time getting my head around the concept that newer software equals software with "less risk". I do not understand why a product, open or closed, is inherently more "risky" due to its age. Perhaps she means un-patched old software? Is she advising users of a genuine risk, or is she making the case for a revenue stream and saying that IS Managers who do not stay "less old" in their application selections are jeopardizing their companies? Although she admonishes Microsoft to fix the problem, it seems her implication is that said managers are negligent, as opposed to the software vendor who may or may not patch the hole they wrote.
I hold Mr. Perens in high regard and take pleasure in reading his perspectives. However, I am out of my depth in a parking lot puddle of parsing people's prerogatives. That's enough alliteration for one night. Anyway, I realize Mr. Perens' relationship with HP and how it evolves is one that is mature beyond a few paragraphs of my positing.
As HP may take, deservedly or not, a black eye over such antics, I would want to relate that there are many types of people who work for a company, and to put one face on a moniker may be an oversight of the people that make up that stock quote.
I purchased a used HP-branded laptop with no supporting documentation or installation disks. I had no luck in finding out much information about the unit on HP's web site, as the model does not apparently exist, according to all of their mechanisms available. I think the unit may have been a very short production run or a contract build for a government agency or private corporation.
My thorough efforts resulted only a few tentative results for BIOS and driver information. I called HP support expecting to pay a per-incident fee. To my suprise, I spoke with an incredibly helpful and interested tech support rep who realized that with what detective work I had done that I do have a rather rare laptop with no online support documentation. Together we found the appropriate most current bios and identified the major system components. With that information and a little more effort I now find myself writing this post on said same laptop just a few hours later, repartitioned for booting my favorite linux distro and all the hardware questions satisfactorily resolved.
This is just a perspective a satisfied person who in this case was not even a customer of HP's yet got what information I needed to accomplish my task with enthusiastic official support. I hope that his attitude holds sway.
Bob Bemer is credited with the first world-wide publication of the Y2k problem.
R.W.Bemer, "What's the Date?", Editorial, Honeywell Computer J. 5, No. 4, 205-208, 1971
Here is a funny quote from him:
Q: So whom do you blame?
A: Richard Nixon.
Q: What did he do?
A:I proposed a national computer year back in 1970. I wanted to model it after the IGY [the International Geophysical Year was from July 1957 to December 1958]. I could see that people were not prepared for the influx of computer usage that was sure to come. I thought that if we all put our minds to it and planned ahead a little bit, maybe it would be easier. Year 2000 was just one of the issues we would have addressed.
President Nixon was very suspicious of computers, though, and wouldn't sign off on it. Without his proclamation we couldn't do it. I think he'll go down in history along with King Canute.
I also have an 85s as part of an account of several units that I administer. I agree that the color "feature" is at best a visual alteration of existing functions. The people I work with whose phones I am responsible for have a mix of phones; i500, i85, i1000, i2000, i700, and i90.
The differences are mostly geometric. I like my i85 but it is not significantly different than the i50, which can be had for 25 dollars with a one-year commitment. The feature set is practically identical to the 85.
Actually, with equal distance travelled, the fossil fuels burned to power the electric car will produce more pollution.
I would be glad to read source material that you would use to support that statement.
I take it that in effect you are stating that the total pollution generated by the (average) fossil fuel power plant to generate the electricity required for the electric vehicle I described (or an average electric vehicle, to be consistent) to be propelled one mile (or whatever arbitrary distance) is greater than the amount of pollution generated by the (average) internal combustion engine propelling the (average) gas-powered vehicle one mile (or identical arbitrary distance)? If I have misinterpreted your position, please accept my apologies.
I have searched for information that would support your position (or my possibly mangled interpretation of it) without success except for one statement offered without support at an anti-environmental legislation website.
My guess was based on a fair amount of reading I have done of articles that can be found in many places with a google search on keywords like ev fossil fuel power plant yielding results, such as this, that lead me to disagree with your statement, or at least for me to find it too general to effectively apply.
If you are including total production/delivery costs of the respective power sources, I would continue to disagree with your statement.
The original poster did not state that they were looking for a "green" solution, I did not offer that this was a "green" solution, and I am not aware of what standards are applied for a product to be considered "green". To me, the word "green" seems to be more an adjective with commensurate subjectivity rather than a measurable threshold.
If you were referring to the web site of the vehicle rather than my brief Q&A, I agree there are some marketing generalizations and hype of the type that I ignore, but none that are patently offensive. I am not an employee of the company that makes the GEM vehicle. What I say may or may not be in line with what they would reply to the question of how is that green.
Without reading anything more into your question, I would clarify that most power where I live is hydroelectric, which has many of its own caveats. For the sake of brevity, let's just assume that the grid from which I draw my house current is entirely fossil fuel. I would guess that the amount of fossil fuel expended to produce the power at a central facility and to distribute the power to the vehicle is less (and with better control mechanisms) than the pollution generated by an internal combustion engine used in a vehicle with similar performance characteristics plus the pollution generated in the distribution of the petroleum on which it runs.
Whether that qualifies as a "green" solution is something I would elect to not answer, though at the risk of splitting an infinitive, perhaps it is "greener".
For our next vehicle, my wife and I are considering the Ford Escape Hybrid. Overly-wrought flash page without much detailed info, but they basically say it will be an gas/electric combo SUV that gets ~40mpg and they will have a 4wd option, which is something that we actually need and use regularly as an avid skiers and hikers. We need the cargo space for my two large dogs, which rule out existing hybrid solutions; We currently drive a Ford Explorer and await a more fuel-efficient yet not entirely anemic solution.
Also, we drive an all-electric vehicle which though outside of the poster's requirements, may warrant consideration for anyone doing short-haul driving in sub-35 mph zones: the line of vehicles from GEM
We have been driving one for about 3 months now and use it for commuting to our offices and to downtown Portland. Neither commute requires us to exceed 25mph.
It has more pick-up than you might think. In the rain, the vehicle does a pretty good job of keeping water off you (my model doesn't have doors). There are doors available, similar to what you would see on a Jeep CJ, as an aftermarket accessory. It is an ideal neighborhood car.
Here are answers to some of the common questions we get, often in traffic.
Q. What the hell is that?
A. A GEM electric car, manufactured by Global Electric Motors, a division of DaimlerChrysler Corporation. The specific model I have is the GEM E825 Utility Vehicle (Short Box).
Q. Is it street legal?
It is on streets with a speed limit of 35mph or below.
Q. How fast does it go?
A. 25 mph.
Q. How far can you drive it?
It varies based on the terrain you are driving it on and the ambient temperatures, but I have driven it over 15 miles on a charge. The stated range is 35 miles.
Q. How do you charge it?
It charges on household current.
Q. Stats?
A. From the GEM website
Curb Weight: 1160 lb. with batteries
GVW: 1850 lb. (Gross Vehicle Weight)
Width: 55 inches
Wheelbase: 71.1 inches
Length: 116 inches
Height: 69.5 inches
Turning Radius: 13 feet 7 inches
Q. Is it fun?
A. You betcha.
When you pay close enough attention, it is possible to find many instances where an activity or behavior is not necessarily the most appropriate allocation of company resources. We could be facist about what activity we allow, though I think it would pollute/dilute the friendly attitude we want to encourage in our employees. I think that it comes down to the corporate environment those that hold purse strings are attempting to foster.
We strictly deny music downloading/streaming/trading over the LAN. There is the legal perspective of licensing and outside pressure (we do pay ASCAP and BMI handsomely in our business) but the real reason is because of the impact it can have on our network and physical system resources (I can't afford to put CD-ROMs in everyone's box just for tunes). However, we encourage listening to whatever helps your specific style of working through a standalone deck so long as it doesn't distract your coworkers. I have some experience in the hospitality industry and I would relate an experience from our kitchens: we feed our employees from our overage in production. It is our experience that when we give to employees there have much less desire to take. Control your shrinkage proactively, so to say.
We expect our employees to give their best effort for greater than one-third of their waking hours, and in return they deserve to be given our best effort to make their experience as positive as possible. I think that the same attitude can apply in many aspects of how you manage your staff, whether it "letting" them listen to music instead of the hum of an HVAC or any other corollary to their day that helps people feel better and accordingly, be better employees.
In this interview Roger Ebert talks with Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise regarding Minority Report. Spielberg speaks on the point of the future direction of advertising and privacy:
The Internet is watching us now. If they want to, they can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing us, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.
Slashdot Mirror
I can finally look fashionable while thwarting the cia's mind readers instead of that baked potato look I had going for me.
You mentioned one out of three applications that keeps me working within Windows part of the time. Corel PhotoPaint has been my image editor of choice for a long time. I attempted to use the linux version but it just didn't cut it in the first iteration, and now that project seems to have been abandoned. Too bad.
HomeSite has been my favorite PHP/HTML editor for a few years. I am trying to move to Quanta, whose team has done a really good job. VegasVideo is hands-down my favorite piece of software I get to use.
Each of these applications provide an easy path to tailoring the workspace to one's particular preference. However, now I am pretty sure that I just spoke from the point of being overly familiar with my choice applications and getting all codgy about the glowy-shiny horning in on me rather than making a case for UI differentiation between applications and OS. (Huh? where am I.)
Anyway, my eyes also agree with the choice of plain-Jane window frames with the majority of it given over to content, with only the widgets I choose available. The windowing interface of current and forthcoming MS-OSessess (and others) hijack the display, and the first thing I do when turning on a new install of whatever OS is to try and take it back. I imagine that the average user will have little motivation to (or are discouraged from.. cogent point, yours about the sidebar.. this glimpse of your directory structure brought to you by Jack-In-The-Box) finding something different than out-of-box settings, even though there may be a _better_ way.
The comment regarding the CPU speed illustrating "the fakeness" was clearly a bad attempt on my part to make fun of what the minimum system requirements for the next iteration of Windows must be, and that this rig clearly would not be up to the task. Trite, cliched, and I apologize.
I think you hit the nail on the head when describing the blurring of distinction between web and desktop. It is this unification of IE and the rest of the interface that I find to be most disenchanting as I don't agree with the design paradigm.
By density, I was describing that I don't allow much wasted space within a window and typically find that I work more efficiently being able to see more content of the document at once, as opposed to bordering/white space. I also typically toggle between various applications and find not as easy to quickly identify what window I'm looking at if the interface is too "same-ish". But as I said before, to each.
Most obvious damning evidence to support your case that these shots are faked:
From System Properties Screenshot:
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
998 MHz
512 MB of RAM
Har.
But seriously, though I have not spent much time in WindowsXP personally, one thing that I noticed immediately upon setting it up for clients is that more and more window space is given over to branding (mucho!) and white space, with less "real" information available.
This trend appears to be continuing with the next Windows release, should these screenshots be legitimate. I realize that there are plenty of ways to increase the density of information displayed through window customization, but the default settings are moving more and more to the point of being devoid of actual control and content. "Hey, Joe, you're using Windows! (press okay to return to your desktop, or cancel to return to your desktop)"
For some, I would imagine that when looking at the high-density desktop UI I enjoy, they would see it as all wrong and just a bunch of chart clutter. To each, I suppose. Mmmm, gummy. Anyway, running the interface shown in those screenshots would be close to pure hell on low-resolution displays with the scrolling and the carpal and the scrolling.
where Enron's accountants found work.
An article in the Oregonian (Portland newspaper) recently went into some detail about the Oregon Historical Society and their intentions to digitize their entire physical collection. You may wish to contact them directly to learn of their techniques, successes and failures.
The five record labels -- Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group, Sony Music, Bertelsmann AG's BMG Music Group, AOL Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Music Group and EMI Group PLC -- and the three retailers, Musicland Stores Corp., Trans World Entertainment Corp. and Tower Records, agreed to stop using MAP policies as part of the settlement.
bull.
Brad Maione, Spitzer's spokesman, said the companies would not admit any wrongdoing.
bullshit^2 and abdication/autoabsolution in the same sentence. There is no way this "settlement" can be viewed as anything less than an utter failure. Mariah Carey's contract was purchased for more than one third of this settlement IN CASH, not in the distribution of recordings for our schools and communities, just to get her to stop singing. Give me more bull.
This is a landmark settlement to address years of illegal price-fixing, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said in a statement.
This is not a landmark. It ain't even a bookmark. Read the article and boggle at the audacity.
The patient, a 40-year-old Michigan man with diabetes, seems to have caught the bug off an infected catheter inserted while he was in the hospital for the amputation of a gangrenous toe
Suddenly I realize that I am not having such a bad day after all.
Well, to be fair to her, the cursing was not directed at the patrol but more the situation, as in, "You have to cut jacket? God Damn it! Okay, go ahead. GOD DAMN IT!" . Perhaps I should have said, cursing next to the Ski Patrol.
I spend a lot of time in weather that is less than pleasant, under conditions where good gear makes a big difference. Audio hardware integrated into your clothing to make it easier to listen to music while riding is not necessarily very safe, as evidenced by numerous incidents of which I am aware where riders have hit snow cats and other riders while oblivious to external sounds. That aside, it sure is fun, being so free on the mountain while listening to your favorite tunes.
I witnessed an experience of a friend of mine about 15 or 20 years ago that makes me think twice whenever I want to drop a few hundred dollars on a new coat.
I was skiing with a teammate on our racing team. She took a fall as we were heading toward the lift line and slid through a plastic mesh fence. Her arm got stuck in the fence as she slid underneath, resulting in a compound fracture. When the Ski Patrol came to extract her from the fence and get her to a care facility, they had to cut off her rather new $300 Descente racing jacket.
I remember, in between her yelling about how much her arm hurt, cursing at the Ski Patrol as they sliced through the exotic fabric and ruined the jacket.
Of course, it was only a jacket, but it is kind of funny how some people, myself included, grow quite fond of the gear we use when out in the elements. It is not entirely a money issue either, but more how one grows comfortable with, relies upon, and trusts the hardware we use.
I think that it will be really interesting when biometric monitors, GPS gear, and transponders are integrated into clothing to help first responders locate and field diagnose victims in the wilderness or on the trail.
Analyst Laura DiDio of the Yankee Group said companies are taking a risk by using such old software, but Microsoft should correct the problem because of its severity.
I am having a hard time getting my head around the concept that newer software equals software with "less risk". I do not understand why a product, open or closed, is inherently more "risky" due to its age. Perhaps she means un-patched old software? Is she advising users of a genuine risk, or is she making the case for a revenue stream and saying that IS Managers who do not stay "less old" in their application selections are jeopardizing their companies? Although she admonishes Microsoft to fix the problem, it seems her implication is that said managers are negligent, as opposed to the software vendor who may or may not patch the hole they wrote.
I hold Mr. Perens in high regard and take pleasure in reading his perspectives. However, I am out of my depth in a parking lot puddle of parsing people's prerogatives. That's enough alliteration for one night. Anyway, I realize Mr. Perens' relationship with HP and how it evolves is one that is mature beyond a few paragraphs of my positing.
As HP may take, deservedly or not, a black eye over such antics, I would want to relate that there are many types of people who work for a company, and to put one face on a moniker may be an oversight of the people that make up that stock quote.
I purchased a used HP-branded laptop with no supporting documentation or installation disks. I had no luck in finding out much information about the unit on HP's web site, as the model does not apparently exist, according to all of their mechanisms available. I think the unit may have been a very short production run or a contract build for a government agency or private corporation.
My thorough efforts resulted only a few tentative results for BIOS and driver information. I called HP support expecting to pay a per-incident fee. To my suprise, I spoke with an incredibly helpful and interested tech support rep who realized that with what detective work I had done that I do have a rather rare laptop with no online support documentation. Together we found the appropriate most current bios and identified the major system components. With that information and a little more effort I now find myself writing this post on said same laptop just a few hours later, repartitioned for booting my favorite linux distro and all the hardware questions satisfactorily resolved.
This is just a perspective a satisfied person who in this case was not even a customer of HP's yet got what information I needed to accomplish my task with enthusiastic official support. I hope that his attitude holds sway.
R.W.Bemer, "What's the Date?", Editorial, Honeywell Computer J. 5, No. 4, 205-208, 1971
Here is a funny quote from him: He has a rather impressive list of accomplishment to go along with those tidbits, including prior art for the British Telecom patent fiasco.
A pretty neat dude.
I also have an 85s as part of an account of several units that I administer. I agree that the color "feature" is at best a visual alteration of existing functions. The people I work with whose phones I am responsible for have a mix of phones; i500, i85, i1000, i2000, i700, and i90.
The differences are mostly geometric. I like my i85 but it is not significantly different than the i50, which can be had for 25 dollars with a one-year commitment. The feature set is practically identical to the 85.
I agree with you that CDex is very good.
You probably should also take a look at Exact Audio Copy.
Electric Power Industry Generating Capability by Primary Energy Source, 1999
Plant type: Percentage
- Utility Production Capability
Coal: 4.7Petroleum: 0
Gas: 6.3
Nuclear: 0
Hydroelectric: 80.6
Other: 0.3
- Non-Utility Production Capability
Coal: 0.1Gas: 5.1
Petroleum/Gas Combined: 0.4
Hydroelectric: 0.9
Other: 1.4
Utility and non-utility constitute 92% and 8% of total power production capability, respectively.
Ten Largest Plants by Generating Capability, 1999
#. Plant: Primary Energy Sources: Net Summer Capability (MW)
1. John Day: Hydro: 2,484
2. The Dalles: Hydro: 1,961
3. Bonneville: Hydro: 1,212
4. McNary: Hydro: 1,127
5. Hermiston Generating: Gas: 552
6. Boardman: Coal: 530
7. Beaver: Gas: 493
8. Hells Canyon: Hydro: 361
9. Round Butte: Hydro: 300
10. Oxbow: Hydro: 220
Source: http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profi
Actually, with equal distance travelled, the fossil fuels burned to power the electric car will produce more pollution.
I would be glad to read source material that you would use to support that statement.
I take it that in effect you are stating that the total pollution generated by the (average) fossil fuel power plant to generate the electricity required for the electric vehicle I described (or an average electric vehicle, to be consistent) to be propelled one mile (or whatever arbitrary distance) is greater than the amount of pollution generated by the (average) internal combustion engine propelling the (average) gas-powered vehicle one mile (or identical arbitrary distance)? If I have misinterpreted your position, please accept my apologies.
I have searched for information that would support your position (or my possibly mangled interpretation of it) without success except for one statement offered without support at an anti-environmental legislation website.
My guess was based on a fair amount of reading I have done of articles that can be found in many places with a google search on keywords like ev fossil fuel power plant yielding results, such as this, that lead me to disagree with your statement, or at least for me to find it too general to effectively apply.
If you are including total production/delivery costs of the respective power sources, I would continue to disagree with your statement.
The original poster did not state that they were looking for a "green" solution, I did not offer that this was a "green" solution, and I am not aware of what standards are applied for a product to be considered "green". To me, the word "green" seems to be more an adjective with commensurate subjectivity rather than a measurable threshold.
If you were referring to the web site of the vehicle rather than my brief Q&A, I agree there are some marketing generalizations and hype of the type that I ignore, but none that are patently offensive. I am not an employee of the company that makes the GEM vehicle. What I say may or may not be in line with what they would reply to the question of how is that green.
Without reading anything more into your question, I would clarify that most power where I live is hydroelectric, which has many of its own caveats. For the sake of brevity, let's just assume that the grid from which I draw my house current is entirely fossil fuel. I would guess that the amount of fossil fuel expended to produce the power at a central facility and to distribute the power to the vehicle is less (and with better control mechanisms) than the pollution generated by an internal combustion engine used in a vehicle with similar performance characteristics plus the pollution generated in the distribution of the petroleum on which it runs.
Whether that qualifies as a "green" solution is something I would elect to not answer, though at the risk of splitting an infinitive, perhaps it is "greener".
For our next vehicle, my wife and I are considering the Ford Escape Hybrid. Overly-wrought flash page without much detailed info, but they basically say it will be an gas/electric combo SUV that gets ~40mpg and they will have a 4wd option, which is something that we actually need and use regularly as an avid skiers and hikers. We need the cargo space for my two large dogs, which rule out existing hybrid solutions; We currently drive a Ford Explorer and await a more fuel-efficient yet not entirely anemic solution.
Also, we drive an all-electric vehicle which though outside of the poster's requirements, may warrant consideration for anyone doing short-haul driving in sub-35 mph zones: the line of vehicles from GEM
We have been driving one for about 3 months now and use it for commuting to our offices and to downtown Portland. Neither commute requires us to exceed 25mph.
It has more pick-up than you might think. In the rain, the vehicle does a pretty good job of keeping water off you (my model doesn't have doors). There are doors available, similar to what you would see on a Jeep CJ, as an aftermarket accessory. It is an ideal neighborhood car.
Here are answers to some of the common questions we get, often in traffic.
Q. What the hell is that?
A. A GEM electric car, manufactured by Global Electric Motors, a division of DaimlerChrysler Corporation. The specific model I have is the GEM E825 Utility Vehicle (Short Box).
Q. Is it street legal?
It is on streets with a speed limit of 35mph or below.
Q. How fast does it go?
A. 25 mph.
Q. How far can you drive it?
It varies based on the terrain you are driving it on and the ambient temperatures, but I have driven it over 15 miles on a charge. The stated range is 35 miles.
Q. How do you charge it?
It charges on household current.
Q. Stats?
A. From the GEM website
Curb Weight: 1160 lb. with batteries
GVW: 1850 lb. (Gross Vehicle Weight)
Width: 55 inches
Wheelbase: 71.1 inches
Length: 116 inches
Height: 69.5 inches
Turning Radius: 13 feet 7 inches
Q. Is it fun?
A. You betcha.
For the several replies that questioned the 1/3 waking statement, my thinking was along these lines:
Total hours/year: 8760
Total waking hours/year (as two-thirds of total hours): 5840
Workhours/year: 2000
Ratio, workhours/waking: 0.342465753
When you pay close enough attention, it is possible to find many instances where an activity or behavior is not necessarily the most appropriate allocation of company resources. We could be facist about what activity we allow, though I think it would pollute/dilute the friendly attitude we want to encourage in our employees. I think that it comes down to the corporate environment those that hold purse strings are attempting to foster.
We strictly deny music downloading/streaming/trading over the LAN. There is the legal perspective of licensing and outside pressure (we do pay ASCAP and BMI handsomely in our business) but the real reason is because of the impact it can have on our network and physical system resources (I can't afford to put CD-ROMs in everyone's box just for tunes). However, we encourage listening to whatever helps your specific style of working through a standalone deck so long as it doesn't distract your coworkers. I have some experience in the hospitality industry and I would relate an experience from our kitchens: we feed our employees from our overage in production. It is our experience that when we give to employees there have much less desire to take. Control your shrinkage proactively, so to say.
We expect our employees to give their best effort for greater than one-third of their waking hours, and in return they deserve to be given our best effort to make their experience as positive as possible. I think that the same attitude can apply in many aspects of how you manage your staff, whether it "letting" them listen to music instead of the hum of an HVAC or any other corollary to their day that helps people feel better and accordingly, be better employees.
SuSe Linux Professional 8.0 ships on 7 CDs and one DVD which contains all the material that is on the 7 CDs. Don't know about the personal edition.
I have installed using both media on about 8 systems so far and have had no problems yet either on upgrades or on fresh installs.
When installing a lot of packages, using the DVD, mot swapping discs is pretty sweet.
No, I swear! I'm not looking! By the way, you already have that Portman jpg by way of four other names, don't you want a Pepsi?
Oh, for the love of Christ, NO! Not another fake Kournikova! You really must try this latest FREE Nokia Cellphone!!!